Location Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Regions Latin America Gender Female
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Paula Berman heads up the Ambassadors Program for Democracy Earth Foundation (DEF), where she works with political and activist leaders in more than 10 countries to create local movements around the blockchain-based liquid democracy governance; she also directs a Student Ambassador program, working with student democracy activists in universities
worldwide. Prior to her work with Democracy Earth, Paula's history has been one of social hacktivism: acting as Team Captain of Code for Curitiba, a group of hacker activists working to make public management better through technology; and leading the creation of Politikei, a software platform connecting citizens with Brazilian City Councils. In 2017 Paula was named a Young Leader of Civic Technology by Stanford University and the U.S. National Democratic Institute. She is a featured guest lecturer at the prestigious ITSRIO. Based in 🇧🇷Brasil, Paula speaks Portuguese, Spanish, English and Hebrew.